
Dr James Bennett
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science (History)
- Email:j.bennett@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4348 4057 (Callaghan)
ANZACS, anarchists and aversion therapists
Because he doesn't believe the present can be understood without acknowledging the past, Dr James Bennett is casting a critical eye over a broad slice of twentieth century Australia and New Zealand.
Beginning his postgraduate journey with a thesis that had a major focus on transnational labour movements of the early 20th century, James' research has since broadened into several interconnected strands with the relationship between Australia and New Zealand as their central organising principle.
Every thread fascinating in its own right, the sometimes surprising linkage between his focal points, and their continuing impact, imbues each with added significance.
To date, James has turned his attention to representing history in film, incidents of resistance in the history of the city of Newcastle, the First World War, the medicalisation and demedicalisation of homosexuality, the ANZAC legend, and the critical pedagogy of tertiary level history.
A Senior Lecturer in History, James' own recent past has seen him fulfill the duties of Head of the History discipline in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle, and Student Academic Conduct Officer for that School.
RADICAL NEWCASTLE
James' interest in early labour movements recently translated to his involvement in a project culminating with the launch of the book Radical Newcastle by the Vice-Chancellor at the Newcastle Writers' Festival in early 2015.
Co-edited by James in collaboration with the UON's Dr Nancy Cushing and Federation University's Professor Erik Eklund, the book contains short essays by more than 30 contributors.
Opening with accounts from the Newcastle penal settlement of 1804, the book surveys episodes of dissent, protest, and fighting back through to the recent battles of the Newcastle Inner City Residents Alliance against perceived corruption and overdevelopment.
James is also working toward a book comprehensively reviewing all English language films and documentaries depicting the First World War's Gallipoli campaign.
An extensive array of source material from Australian, New Zealand, and UK filmmakers will feature.
Due to his expertise in this area, James has also been asked to submit a chapter detailing the representation of ANZAC and the Gallipoli campaign in the context of Australian cinema and transnational threads for an upcoming Wiley-Blackwell screen companion.
UNPACKING ANZAC
James suggests that depictions of Australia's involvement in the First World War are often idealised, with the typical narrative nationalistic and narrow. Being confronted with differing perspectives to those perpetuated by the media and legend is challenging for some Australians.
"The most problematic content in the first year survey course on Australian history is the ANZAC component," James says.
"Partly because it is all around us like wallpaper and the tendency of students can be to regurgitate aspects of the Australian legend. It can be difficult to stand back and think about it critically."
James and colleagues are currently exploring critical pedagogical strategies, such as the use of documentary film and group discussion, to assist these students in rethinking their stance.
"We are looking at that research-teaching nexus and the anxieties in the classroom for the teachers, and to some extent for students, and trying to take a more critical approach," James discloses.
These targeted strategies, and data relating to the baseline attitudes of students, will be presented by James and his colleague Dr Margot Ford at the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) Conference 2015.
On top of that, James and Margot were recently awarded a competitive Faculty grant to organise a workshop in Newcastle in 2016 that will form and cement an international network on education and modern conflict in international comparative perspective.
The network will work towards submission of a large external grant application in 2017.
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON AUSTRALIA'S FIRST WORLD WAR
Early in 2015, James co-convened the international conference, 'The First World War: Local, Global and Imperial Perspectives'.
The conference explored the social and cultural impacts of the First World War through a critical and multidisciplinary lens.
"In some profound ways, the legacies of the First World War continue with us today," James asserts.
James and fellow UON historian, Dr Kate Ariotti, are working to assemble a collection of works based on conference papers and resultant explorations.
Local and international academics will contribute work around issues such as women and war, Australian prisoners of war, the home front and remembrance.
"There will also be a chapter on the labour movement in the First World War, so the kind of industrial troubles that were happening on the home front but were informed by international events."
"This conference and the book are actually about globalising Australia's involvement in the First World War," James explains.
"Most of the writing concerning that war has been quite inward looking and nationalistic in focus, but we have tried to create a good blend of local and international."
HEAVENLY CREATURES
On a research trip to New Zealand in the 1990s, a now deceased aunt of James' divulged that his medico grandfather had been involved in New Zealand's most famous trial, that of matricide killer Pauline Parker and her accomplice Juliet Hulme.
This family connection, together with a feature film about the case by New Zealand director Peter Jackson, combined to firmly capture James' interest.
"Jackson is an exceedingly interesting film maker working at a highly interesting time in the development of New Zealand film, and to have an ancestor who's implicated in the story raised all sorts of questions for me," James confides.
Extensive cultural shifts have compelled James to contrast original representations of the case to more recent depictions, with a focus on gendered constructions, social class, and national identity.
The medicalisation of homosexuality in Australia and New Zealand during the second half of the 20th century is another area of interest raised by the Parker-Hulme case. James presented at a UK conference marking the 50thanniversary of the Wolfenden Report, which led to the eventual decriminalisation of homosexuality in England.
CROSSING THE TASMAN
James' thesis explored Maori encounters with, and resistance to, the 'White Australia' Policy. Those stories are being echoed in a strand of research related to current relations between the two nations.
James suggests that the theoretically reciprocal relationship between the two countries, although historically taken for granted, is becoming increasingly one sided.
"There was a major shift in 2001 when people born in New Zealand, but living in Australia, were no longer able to access the services that they were once entitled to," James says.
"Taking out citizenship has become more difficult since 2001 and some New Zealanders have been caught between the cracks."
The deportation of New Zealanders who have served a combined jail sentence in Australia for longer than a year has become what James describes as a 'hot button issue' in his native country.
"The deportees may have no cultural memory of New Zealand, or friends and family there. That isn't taken into account."
James suggests that there is a growing dissatisfaction on the part of the New Zealand public and Opposition benches, with the current New Zealand and Australian governments' perceived lack of action on this fading reciprocity.
"It is an interesting and still developing aspect of Trans-Tasman relations."
"There are questions being asked. If we are mates with an intertwined history, why are people being treated like this?"
"Is it now a case of 'Once Were Mates'?"
ANZACS, anarchists and aversion therapists
Because he doesn’t believe the present can be understood without acknowledging the past, Dr James Bennett is casting a critical eye over a broad slice of twenti
Career Summary
Biography
James Bennett is a Senior Lecturer in History, formerly Head of the History discipline in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle (2013-14) and Student Academic Conduct Officer for that School (2011-13). His professional memberships include the International Society for First World War Studies, the Australian Historical Association and Friends of the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.
His most significant recent achievements include co-editing the rich and diverse collection, Radical Newcastle, on that city's submerged 'radical' past. The book was published by NewSouth Publishing and released to coincide with the Newcastle Writers' Festival in March, 2015 and the University's 50th birthday commemorations. The project has returned him to his early career roots in the field of labour history which led to publication of his first monograph, 'Rats and Revolutionaries': The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890-1940 (Otago University Press, 2004) based on part of his PhD thesis.
He co-convened the international conference, 'The First World War: Local, Global and Imperial Perspectives' at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Newcastle from 25 to 27 March, 2015. The purpose of the conference was to provide a rejoinder to the customary hubris of national commemorations, and to stimulate awareness of the conflict’s often submerged local, global and imperial contexts. Among the key themes were marginalised experiences of the war (notably women and Indigenous service personnel), approaches to commemoration, cultural representations of the conflict and dissent.
Recent publications have been focused on the representation of history on film and television, notably the collection published as Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand (I.B. Tauris, 2011), which he co-edited and contributed to. More recently his emphasis has been on documentary representations of the First World War through articles on international documentaries that marked the 90th anniversary of the campaign (Continuum, 28:5, 2014) as well as television documentaries dealing with Aboriginal service and sacrifice (Journal of Australian Studies, 38:4, 2014).
He has had articles published in many national and international journals on Australian history, New Zealand history, transnational history, sexual history and film and history including the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, History Compass, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Social History of Medicine, War and Society and Journal of New Zealand Studies. In 2006 he co-edited a special issue on gender readings in history and film for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies.
He was an interviewee for the 2010 American feature length documentary Reflections of the Past: An Open Discussion on the Parker-Hulme Case arising from his publications on the seminal 1954 New Zealand murder case and its representations in film and media.
Research Expertise- Historical Studies
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Melbourne
- Master of Arts (Honours), University of Canterbury - New Zealand
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Canterbury - New Zealand
- Royal Society of Arts Certificate in TEFL, International House London
Keywords
- Australian history
- Documentary film
- Gender and sexuality
- History, film and representation
- LGBT+ history
- New Zealand history
- The First World War
- The Labour movement
- War and society
Languages
- German (Working)
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
Title | Organisation / Department |
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Senior Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
Senior Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/11/2005 - 1/12/2005 | Acting Secretary | NZ Historical Assocation Conference New Zealand |
1/8/2004 - 1/2/2007 | Lecturer | The University of Auckland Department of History New Zealand |
1/4/1991 - 1/12/1992 | Assistant Lecturer | International Pacific College Centre for English Language and Foundation Studies- English as a Foreign Language New Zealand |
1/8/2004 - 1/2/2007 | Lecturer | The University of Auckland Comparative History New Zealand |
Co-Editor - Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies | University of Newcastle Australia |
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1/1/2001 - 1/12/2001 | Conference Co-convenor - Interdiscipinary Gender Studies | Interdiscipinary Gender Studies Conference Australia |
1/1/2001 - 1/12/2001 | Conference Co-convenor | Australian Homosexual Histories Conference Australia |
Membership
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/1/2005 - 1/12/2005 | Member - British World Conference IV Program Committee | British World Conference IV Program Committee Australia |
Awards
Professional
Year | Award |
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2020 |
Faculty of Education & Arts Excellence Award for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Australia |
2018 |
Teaching Innovation Investment Scheme (UON) Centre for Teaching and Learning, The University of Newcastle |
Research Award
Year | Award |
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2002 |
Faculty Enhancement Program award (FEP) International Council for Canadian Studies |
Teaching Award
Year | Award |
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2019 |
DVC(A) Educator Innovation and Impact Award Office of the DVC (A), The University of Newcastle, Australia |
2012 |
Vice Chancellor's Citations on Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for HIST1051: The Australian Experience (joint winner) The University of Newcastle |
Invitations
Keynote Speaker
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2017 | Book launch: 'Swimming Against the Tide – a Biography of Freda Brown' by Dr Lisa Milner |
2005 |
Auckland History Teachers’ Association Professional Development Conference Organisation: Auckland History Teachers' Association Description: Invitation to speak at the Auckland History Teachers' Professional Development conference at St. Cuthbert's College in Auckland. The paper was based on my research work around identities, film and representation. |
Organiser
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2011 |
Invited course co-ordinator and lecturer, History and Film summer course, UNSW, Sydney Invited by A/Prof Anne O'Brien to be course coordinator of a three week intensive summer semester course at UNSW. |
Participant
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2007 |
Associate Prof Malcolm Campbell Organisation: University of Auckland Description: I was asked to assess and prepare a report on a Masters thesis which had been examined by 1 internal and 1 external examiner. There was a wide discrepancy between the two grades. My compromise grade was adopted. |
2007 |
Associate Prof Malcolm Campbell Organisation: University of Auckland Description: I was asked to assess and prepare a report on a Masters thesis which had been examined by 1 internal and 1 external examiner. There was a wide discrepancy between the two grades. My compromise grade was adopted. |
2007 |
Dr David Pomfret Organisation: Hong Kong University Description: Personal invitation based on my published work from the new convenor of the HKU History Department seminar series, which is very international in orientation. Accommodation expenses are paid. |
2007 |
Trans Tasman Labour History Conference Organisation: Auckland University of Technology Description: Paper invited by virtue of my published monograph, 'Rats and Revolutionaries'(2004) |
2007 |
Dr Graham Willett Organisation: Australia Centre, University of Melbourne Description: Personal invitation to give a paper at the Wolfenden 50 Conference (50 years since publication of the Wolfenden Report) at King's College in London. This arises from my work on transnationalism and on sexual identities. |
2004 |
Associate Prof Anna Green Organisation: University of Waikato Description: Shortly after my appointment at the University of Auckland I was invited by the Chairperson of the History Department at the University of Waikato in Hamilton (c. 1.5 hours south of Auckland0 to run an upper level course in social history. |
Thesis Examinations
Year | Level | Discipline | Thesis |
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2013 | PHD | Humanities | Representations of Aboriginies in Australian Documentary Film, 1901-2009 |
2008 | PHD | Humanities | The Communist Party of Australia and Proletariat Internationalism |
2006 | PHD | Other | PhD - History - University of Melbourne |
2006 | Masters | Other | Masters - History - University of Melbourne |
Manuscript Reviews
Year | Title | Publication Type | Publisher | Description |
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2016 | In Defence of Country: Life Stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Servicemen and Women | Authored Book - Research (HERDC) | ANU Press | <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;">Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been protecting country since time immemorial. One way they have continued these traditions in recent times is through service in the Australian military, both overseas and within Australia. In Defence of Country presents a selection of life stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ex-servicemen and women who served in the Australian Army, Navy and Air Force after World War Two. In their own words, participants discuss a range of issues including why they joined up; racial discrimination; the Stolen Generations; leadership; discipline; family; war and peace; education and skills development; community advocacy; and their hopes for the future of Indigenous Australia. Individually and collectively, the life stories in this book highlight the many contributions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander servicemen and women have made, and continue to make, in defence of country.</span> |
Prestigious works / other achievements
Year Commenced | Year Finished | Prestigious work / other achievement | Role |
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2015 | 2017 | James E. Bennett. 'Interpreting Anzac and Gallipoli through a Transnational Prism: A Century of Anglophone Screen Representations' In Felicity Collins, Susan Bye & Jane Landman eds., A Companion to Australian Cinema. ISBN-10: 1118942574. Wiley Blackwell Publishing | Author |
Teaching
Code | Course | Role | Duration |
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HIST1051 |
The Australian Experience The University of Newcastle This course provides an introduction to Australian history. It treats the development of Australian society to the present through the lenses of Aboriginal deep time history; convicts and colonialism; war and conflict; migration and multiculturalism; landscape and the environment; and the development of democratic institutions. The course looks to Australian history to contextualise issues in contemporary Australia and introduces the skills and approaches employed in the study of the Australian past. |
Course Coordinator | 22/2/2010 - 7/6/2019 |
HIST3220 |
Issues in Australian History The University of Newcastle Takes an in-depth look at specific issues in Australian history that have provoked debate and controversy. The aim is to take a considered look at historical debates surrounding these issues, consider some of the relevant primary sources, and discuss the theoretical and political context to contemporary developments in the study of Australian history. The course provides students with an overarching knowledge of historical debates, while also encouraging the development of the skills of researching, writing, and evaluating historical arguments. The idea that the Australian past is the subject of debate and contestation will be introduced in a challenging yet enjoyable fashion. |
Course Coordinator | 28/7/2014 - 7/11/2014 |
HIST3581 |
Sex and Scandal in History The University of Newcastle This course introduces students to the history of sexuality and constructions of sexuality across a range of nations, periods and geographical regions in the Western world. It provides a chronological and thematic survey of the field including a consideration of homosexuality, heterosexuality and queer, and the multiple ways in which the private and public worlds are interconnected through sex. The course is informed by a wide range of historical resources including non-elite source types such as film and documentary, memoir, tabloid newspapers and sex education literature. |
Course Coordinator | 25/7/2016 - 8/11/2019 |
HIST2650 |
War and Australian Society The University of Newcastle This course introduces students to the phenomenon of war in Australian society in its many manifestations, from the colonial period through to the early twenty-first century. It draws on social and cultural perspectives together with traditional operational, strategic and political aspects of war history. The course is informed by a wide variety of source types including traditional military and official written records, diaries, letters and memoirs, audio-visual material, artwork and scholarly secondary sources. These sources are employed to explore war experiences ranging from fighting on the battlefield, to people's day-to-day lives on the home front, to the ways in which war and conflict have been remembered in Australia. The course will be of interest to students wanting to learn more about the impact of war on Australia and Australians, and will provide the historical context for contemporary debates about the place of war in Australian history. |
Course Coordinator | 29/7/2013 - 8/11/2019 |
HIST3003 |
History Workshop The University of Newcastle This is a final capstone compulsory course for the History major within the Bachelor of Arts program. It will allow students the exciting opportunity to develop their own research project. It will allow students to extend their knowledge of a specific topic, and engage in an in-depth research and writing exercise. The course will begin with introductory sessions and will then, using the skills developed, allow students to focus on their own area of interest. There will be a range of choices that may include medieval and early modern history; modern European history; American History; Australian history and transnational history. |
Course Coordinator | 25/7/2016 - 2/11/2018 |
HIST3053 |
Reel History The University of Newcastle While historians deal principally with written texts, they are increasingly turning to film as an important source of historical evidence. Historians are also interested in interrogating the constructed nature of filmic accounts and the ways in which films represent the past. These concerns form key themes of Reel History. Moreover, the development of critical engagement and visual literacy across a range of film genres is increasingly necessary in a world saturated in visual media. To this end, a range of films and historical and theoretical texts will be investigated. Examples of both documentary and dramatic screen texts will be used in the course, and some use may also be made of experimental film. |
Course Coordinator | 26/1/2015 - 20/2/2015 |
HIST2031 |
History, War and Film The University of Newcastle Cinema is a powerful medium for the interpretation of the past. Some film biographies, period pieces, and documentaries have provided us with insightful information about human history; others have distorted issues or served as propaganda. This course will study the challenges and promises of film as historical artifact by focusing on cinematic representations of war (from the First and Second World Wars, to post-war colonial struggles). The objective is to introduce students to film as historical documents and to help them acquire specific critical tools for incorporation into the study of history. |
Course Coordinator | 26/2/2018 - 8/6/2018 |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (5 outputs)
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2019 |
A Companion to Australian Cinema, Wiley (2019)
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2017 |
Ariotti K, Bennett J, Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and Contexts, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, XV, 254 (2017)
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2015 |
Bennett JE, Cushing N, Eklund E, Radical Newcastle: Unearthing the radical past and present of Newcastle and the Hunter Region, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, xxi, 333 (2015) [A3]
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2011 |
Beirne RC, Bennett JE, Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand, I. B. Tauris, London, 296 (2011) [A3]
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2004 | Bennett JE, Rats & Revolutionaries: The Labour Movement in Australia & New Zealand 1890-1940, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 214 (2004) [A1] | |||||||
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Chapter (8 outputs)
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2019 |
Bennett JE, ''Interpreting Anzac and Gallipoli through a Century of Anglophone Screen Representations'', A Companion to Australian Cinema, Wiley-Blackwell, New Jersey 205-227 (2019) [B1]
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2017 |
Bennett JE, '"Australia's war through the lens of centenary documentary: connecting scholarly and popular histories"', Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and Contexts, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland 221-239 (2017) [B1]
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2017 |
Bennett JE, Ariotti K, 'Introduction', Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and Contexts, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland 1-6 (2017) [B1]
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2015 |
Cushing NE, Eklund E, Bennett J, 'Introduction', Radical Newcastle, NewSouth, Sydney 1-14 (2015) [B1]
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2011 | Bennett JE, 'Heavenly Creatures: The 1954 Parker-Hulme case', Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand, I. B. Tauris, London 199-204 (2011) [B2] | ||||||
2011 |
Bennett JE, Beirne RC, 'Introduction', Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand, I. B. Tauris, London xvii-xxiii (2011) [B2]
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2004 | Bennett JE, 'The New Zealand Labour Movement and International Communism 1921 to c.1938', Lenin's Legacy Down Under: New Zealand's Cold War, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand 73-91 (2004) [B1] | ||||||
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Journal article (18 outputs)
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2019 |
Ford M, Bennett J, Kilmister M, '"Challenging Anzac myths in tertiary teaching: Engaging preservice teachers"', Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 16 1-14 (2019) [C1]
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2018 |
Bennett JE, Brickell C, 'Survelling the Mind and Body: Medicalising and de-medicalising Homosexuality in 1970s New Zealand', Medical History, 62 199-216 (2018) [C1]
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2017 |
Kilmister M, Bennett JE, Ford M, Debenham J, 'Treading on sacred ground: confronting the Anzac myth in higher education', History Compass, 15 1-12 (2017) [C1]
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2014 |
Bennett J, 'Breaking out of the nationalist/ic paradigm: international screen texts on the 1915 Gallipoli campaign', Continuum, 28 640-653 (2014) [C1]
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2014 |
Bennett JE, 'Lest we forget black diggers: recovering Aboriginal Anzacs on television', Journal of Australian Studies, 38 457-475 (2014) [C1]
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2012 | Bennett JE, 'Man alone and men together: Maurice Shadbolt, William Malone and Chunuk Bair', Journal of New Zealand Studies, 46-61 (2012) [C1] | |||||||
2011 |
Bennett J, 'Destination Australia. Migration to Australia since 1901', AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, 51 101-103 (2011)
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2010 |
Bennett JE, 'Keeping the Wolfenden from the door? Homosexuality and the 'Medical Model' in New Zealand', Social History of Medicine, 23 134-152 (2010) [C1]
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2009 |
Bennett JE, 'Reflections on writing comparative and transnational labour history', History Compass, 7 376-394 (2009) [C1]
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2009 | Bennett J, 'Homophobia. An Australian history', JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, 33 238-239 (2009) | |||||||
2006 | Bennett JE, 'Fifty Years of Parker and Hulme: A Survey of Some Major Textual Representations and their Ideological Significance', Journal of New Zealand Studies, 11-37 (2006) [C1] | |||||||
2006 |
Bennett JE, May JR, 'Introduction', Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, 10 i-ix (2006) [C3]
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2006 | Bennett JE, 'Medicine, Sexuality, and High Anxiety in 1950s New Zealand: Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994)', Health and History, 8 147-175 (2006) [C1] | |||||||
2003 |
Bennett JE, 'Massey's Sunday School Picnic Party: The Other Anzacs or Honorary Australians?', War & Society, 21 23-54 (2003) [C1]
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2001 |
Bennett JE, 'Maori as Honorary Members of the White Tribe', The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 29 33-54 (2001) [C1]
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1999 |
Bennett JE, 'The Contamination of Arcadia? Class, Trans-National Interactions and the Construction of Identity, 1890-1913', New Zealand Journal of History, 33 No 1 20-42 (1999) [C1]
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Review (14 outputs)
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2018 | Bennett JE, 'What's Normal? Review of Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens, "Normality: A Critical Genealogy," University of Chicago Press, 2017. Australian Book Review (May 2018) (2018) | ||||
2013 |
Bennett JE, Boucher L, Cokley J, Delofski M, Parsons TG, Taylor J, 'Diasporas of Australian Cinema, Catherine Simpson, Renata Murawska and Anthony Lambert (Eds), (2009) Bristol, UK: Chicago, USA: Intellect', Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (2013) [C3]
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2012 | Bennett JE, 'New Zealand cinema: Interpreting the past, edited by Alistair Fox, Barry Keith Grant and Hilary Radner [Book review]', Senses of Cinema (2012) [C3] | ||||
2011 | Bennett JE, 'Bob Hawke's legacy', History Australia (2011) [C3] | ||||
2011 | Bennett JE, 'Eric Richards, Destination Australia. Migration to Australia since 1901', Australian Economic History Review (2011) [C3] | ||||
2009 | Bennett JE, 'Remaking the Tasman World', Labour History (2009) [C3] | ||||
2009 |
Bennett JE, 'Homophobia: An Australian history', Journal of Australian Studies (2009) [C3]
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2008 |
Bennett JE, 'Revolution: The 1913 great strike in New Zealand', Labor History (2008) [C3]
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2007 |
Bennett JE, 'The longest decade', Australian Economic History Review (2007) [C3]
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2006 | Bennett JE, 'The great labor schism: A retrospective', Australian Economic History Review (2006) [C3] | ||||
2004 | Bennett JE, 'Review of The Shaping of History: Essays from the New Zealand Journal of History', Australian Historical Studies (2004) [C3] | ||||
2004 | Bennett JE, 'Review of David Coad, Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities', Journal of interdisciplinary gender studies (2004) [C3] | ||||
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Conference (11 outputs)
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2019 | Bennett J, 'Pray the Gay Away? Faith, Medicine and Conversion Therapy', University of Auckland (2019) | ||||
2018 |
Bennett J, Johnson M, 'Has Toxic Masculinity affected progress towards lesbian and gay equality in Australia?', The University of Newcastle (2018)
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2017 |
Bennett JE, Johnson M, Featherstone L, Robinson S, 'Panel on Entangled Sexualities', University of Newcastle (2017)
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2015 |
Ford M, Bennett JE, Debenham J, Kilmister M, 'Challenging Anzac at the tertiary chalk face: student engagement with critical pedagogy', Book of Abstracts, Wellington, New Zealand (2015) [E3]
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2001 | Bennett JE, 'Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures: a personal perspective', Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Ourimbah (2001) [E2] | ||||
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Other (24 outputs)
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2020 |
McLoughlin K, Bennett J, Johnson M, Betts D, Shaw G, Pepper B, et al., 'Waiting for Equality Research Team Submission in response to Religious Freedom Bills First Exposure Draft', . https://www.ag.gov.au/Consultations/Pages/religious-freedom-bills.aspx#w (2020)
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2019 |
Bennett J, Johnson M, 'Why Dorothy's red shoes deserve their status as gay icons even in changing times', . https://theconversation.com/why-dorothys-red-shoes-deserve-their-status-as-gay-icons-even-in-changing-times-110187: The Conversation (2019)
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2019 |
Bennett J, Johnson M, ''Gay conversion therapy nearly killed me': Survivor backs NSW push for national ban', (2019) [O1]
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Report (1 outputs)
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2013 |
Grushka KM, Bennett J, Parkes R, Beirne R, Donnelly D, Falzon C, et al., 'Visual Media Texts: Teaching and Assessing the Humanities and Social Sciences in a Post-literate Age', Faculty of Education and Arts, 17 (2013)
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Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 26 |
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Total funding | $131,360 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20202 grants / $13,260
Institutional Intervention in Queer Lives: Historical to Contemporary Paradigms$12,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr David Betts (Lead), Dr James Bennett and Dr Justin Ellis |
Scheme | Strategic Network and Pilot Project Grants Scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
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Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
2020 Faculty of Education and Arts Strategic Early Advice and Feedback Scheme$1,260
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr James Bennett |
Scheme | 2020 FEDUA Strategic Early Advice and Feedback Scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20191 grants / $9,995
Waiting for Equality: Telling LGBT+ Stories about Marriage Equality in Newcastle and the Hunter, 2004 - 2019$9,995
Funding body: Janet Copley Bequest
Funding body | Janet Copley Bequest |
---|---|
Project Team | Dr James Bennett, Professor Marguerite Johnson, Dr David Betts and Dr Kcasey McLoughlin |
Scheme | School of Humanities and Social Science - Copley Bequest Pilot Research Fund |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2019 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
20181 grants / $15,000
Surveilling Bodies and Minds: Sexualities, Medicine and the Law in Australasian Contexts$15,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Marguerite Johnson, Dr James Bennett, Dr Kcasey McLoughlin, Professor Joanna Bourke, Associate Professor Shirleene Robinson, Associate Professor Lisa Featherstone, Associate Professor Chris Bricknell |
Scheme | FEDUA Strategic Networks and Pilot Projects (SNaPP) |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2018 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20171 grants / $13,000
Global Newcastle Research Network$13,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Scheme | FEDUA Strategic Networks and Pilot Projects (SNaPP) |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2017 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20163 grants / $25,709
Teaching and Learning War: Education and Modern Conflict in an International Comparative Perspective$15,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Dr James Bennett; Dr Nargot Ford; Prof Bill Nasson; Dr Catriona Pennell; Dr Mark Sheehan; Dr Timothy Winegard; Prof Tim Cook; Dr Anne-Maree Einhaus; Prof Stuart Foster; Prof Ashley Jackson; Dr Jenny Mcleod, Dr Jane Potter; Dr Dan Todman |
Scheme | FEDUA Strategic Networks and Pilot Projects Scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Global Newcastle: Regional Identity and Digital History$9,727
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Professor Catharine Coleborne, Doctor Julie McIntyre, Associate Professor Nancy Cushing, Doctor James Bennett |
Scheme | Linkage Pilot Research Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | G1600837 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Ourimbah Strategic Research Grant III$982
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts |
---|---|
Project Team | James Bennett, Margot Ford, Jennifer Debenham and Michael Kilmister |
Scheme | Ourimbah Strategic Research Grant scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20151 grants / $1,000
Teaching ANZAC in the 21st Century$1,000
Funding body: The University of Newcastle
Funding body | The University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Scheme | Seed grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20141 grants / $1,000
Teaching Anzac in the 21st Century$1,000
Funding body: The University of Newcastle
Funding body | The University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Scheme | Seed grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20112 grants / $11,000
Visual Media Artefacts: Teaching and Assessment in a Post-literate Age$10,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | James Bennett, Robert Parkes, Kath Grushka |
Scheme | Teaching and Learning Project Grant 2011 |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2011 |
Funding Finish | 2011 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Offshore Processes: International Perspectives on Australian Film and Television, 8-11 July 2012$1,000
Funding body: The University of Newcastle
Funding body | The University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Scheme | Ourimbah research development |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2011 |
Funding Finish | 2011 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20101 grants / $3,400
Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and NZ$3,400
Funding body: The University of Newcastle
Funding body | The University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | James Bennett; Rebecca Beirne |
Scheme | Humanities Research Institute Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2010 |
Funding Finish | 2010 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20092 grants / $10,715
Collegial Conversations: Enhancing the Teaching Environment in Humanities and Teacher education at the Central Coast$10,000
Funding body: The University of Newcastle
Funding body | The University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | C. Webb; J. Bennett; M. Ford; N. Cushing; M. Johnston; R. Reynolds, J. Brown |
Scheme | Discovery Project |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2009 |
Funding Finish | 2009 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Australian Historical Association Conference 2009, Queensland, 30 June - 3 July 2009$715
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
---|---|
Project Team | Doctor James Bennett |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2009 |
Funding Finish | 2009 |
GNo | G0190383 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20081 grants / $3,000
Pilot Grant$3,000
Funding body: The University of Newcastle
Funding body | The University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Scheme | School of Humanities and Social Science Pilot Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20071 grants / $2,500
Wolfenden 50, King's College London, 28/6/2007 - 30/6/2007$2,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Doctor James Bennett |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2007 |
Funding Finish | 2007 |
GNo | G0187775 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20042 grants / $5,200
Research travel grants in aid$5,000
Funding body: University of Auckland
Funding body | University of Auckland |
---|---|
Project Team | Dr James Bennett |
Scheme | Faculty of Arts and History Department conference grants |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2004 |
Funding Finish | 2006 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | International - Non Competitive |
Category | 3IFB |
UON | N |
12th Biennial Conference of the Australian Historical Association, 5-9 July 2004$200
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Doctor James Bennett |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2004 |
Funding Finish | 2004 |
GNo | G0184455 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20031 grants / $2,400
British World Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada 10-12 July, 2003$2,400
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Doctor James Bennett |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2003 |
Funding Finish | 2003 |
GNo | G0183075 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20023 grants / $13,440
Putting History on Film: The Parker-Hulme Case and Peter Jackson's Cinematic Representation, Heavenly Creatures$7,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Doctor James Bennett |
Scheme | Early Career Researcher Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2002 |
Funding Finish | 2002 |
GNo | G0182149 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Faculty Enhancement Program$5,500
Funding body: International Council for Canadian Studies
Funding body | International Council for Canadian Studies |
---|---|
Project Team | Dr James Bennett |
Scheme | Faculty Enhancement Program |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2002 |
Funding Finish | 2002 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | International - Non Competitive |
Category | 3IFB |
UON | N |
Australian Historical Association 11th Biennial Conference, Brisbane, Queensland 3-7 July, 2002$440
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Doctor James Bennett |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2002 |
Funding Finish | 2002 |
GNo | G0182069 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20012 grants / $486
8th Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Conference, 29 June 2001$391
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor James Bennett, Professor Marguerite Johnson |
Scheme | Conference Establishment Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2001 |
Funding Finish | 2001 |
GNo | G0180957 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Australian Homosexual Histories Conference #4 University of Adelaide 19-20 October 2001$95
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Doctor James Bennett |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2001 |
Funding Finish | 2001 |
GNo | G0181524 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19991 grants / $255
Australian Historical Association Regional Conference 1999, Hobart Tasmania, 29 September - 1 October 1999$255
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Doctor James Bennett |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1999 |
Funding Finish | 1999 |
GNo | G0179102 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Current Supervision
Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2021 | PhD | A History of ‘Gay Conversion Therapy’ in the West; From Psychiatry to the Church | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | From Gay Liberation to "Post-Gay": A Critical Autoethnographic Study of Middle-Aged and Older Gay Men's Experiences with Mediated Identity | PhD (Cultural Studies), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | Suspicious Minds: Korean War Ex-POWs, Commonwealth Intelligence Services, and the Cold War | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | Honours |
When seeing is no longer believing: How indetectable image manipulation threatens to undermine historical representation in the documentary <p><span>Image manipulation technology has developed significantly with the recent advances in artificial intelligence. Consequently, our ability to detect visual forgeries is rapidly diminishing. In the current climate of post-truth, objective standards for truth are already being disregarded; if images can no longer be trusted, then this further reduces the ability of visual sources to convincingly act as evidence and assert truth. This thesis seeks to understand the implications of image manipulations becoming indetectable and the consequences that this will have on the documentary as a vehicle for historical representation. By exploring the roles of historical sources, visual evidence, and truth, a universal concept of history that is independent of form is presented accordingly. This concept is then used to synergise existing documentary theory with historiography to justify the documentary as a serious vehicle for historical representation and understand its categorization within the field. Finally, indetectable image manipulation is explored through both theoretical and practical approaches to understand how it undermines the documentary’s ability to represent history. Indetectable image manipulation, exacerbated by the current climate of post-truth, threatens the credibility of visual evidence leading to the likely scenario in which the only type of documentary that can survive in the digital age is one that truly embraces the notion of subjectivity. The field of History, the broader academic environment, and the wider public are all seriously u</span>nprepared to face the potential fallout from this emerging technology.</p> |
History, University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2020 | Masters | Developing Summerland: Coastal Suburbanisation Between Sydney and Newcastle: 1945-2000 | M Philosophy (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | Connected and Contactable: The Australian Army's Linkages to Other Commonwealth Armies in the Inter-War Period (1919-1939) | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | Modern Dating Rituals in Australia, 1940 - 1970. | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2021 | PhD | ‘Stop the War on Aborigines’: The Communist Party of Australia and the Fight for Aboriginal Rights 1920-1934 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | The Geopolitical Imperative and Bureaucratic Continuity in Australia’s Regional Policies, 1859 – 1944 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | Valore Australis: Constructions of Australian Military Heroism from Sudan to Vietnam, 1885–1975 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | The Return of the 1920s: An Examination of the Twenty First Century Revival | PhD (Cultural Studies), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2019 | Masters | The Making of the Newcastle Industrial Hub 1915 to 1950 | M Philosophy (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | Antipodean Imperialist: Sir John Latham, a Political Biography, 1902 to 1934 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | Honours | ‘Hug It or Hit It: Child Corporal Punishment Attitudes in Australia, New Zealand and Canada (1990-2009)’. | History, University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | The Electricity Commission of New South Wales and its Place in the Rise of Centralised Coordination of Bulk Electricity Generation and Transmission 1888 - 2003 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | National Identity, the Auteur and the Greek World on Film | PhD (Classics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2014 | Honours | ‘Valour in the Desert: A Critical Examination of the Victoria Cross and Heroic Construct in the Palestine Campaign, 1916–1918.’ | History, The University of Newcastle, Australia | Principal Supervisor |
2013 | Honours | ‘An Affair to Remember: Debating the Political Response to the 1989 French Headscarf Affair’. | History, University of Newcastle, School of Humanities and Social Science | Principal Supervisor |
2007 | PhD | Sex education in New Zealand, 1940-1985 | History, The University of Auckland | Co-Supervisor |
2006 | PhD | Psychiatric nursing in New Zealand, 1938-1972 | History, The University of Auckland | Co-Supervisor |
2006 | Masters | Heroic donkeys and legendary men | History, The University of Auckland | Principal Supervisor |
Research Projects
Surveilling Minds and Bodies: Sexualities, Medicine and the Law in Australasian Contexts 2018 -
The project endeavours to provide a historical context (1950-present) for the current Australasian events surrounding, and responding to, the surveillance of sexualities, particularly gay and lesbian sexualities. The recent shifts in power dynamics pertaining to sexualities, the body, medicalization, and the law – represented most profoundly by the marriage equality debate – demonstrates the need for a series of historical enquiries into these key social issues.
Membership:
Professor Marguerite Johnson; Dr James Bennett; Dr Kcasey McLoughlin
Collaborators:
Professor Joanna Bourke; A/Prof Chris Brickell; A/Prof Lisa Featherstone; A/Prof Shirleene Robinson
For details of our conference, please see the following website:
Global Newcastle 2016 -
Through our work, the Global Newcastle Research Network brings a new perspective to histories of Newcastle. The Global Newcastle project challenges limited ideas about possible futures for Newcastle by demonstrating that in the past and present, the city has been integrated in global flows of capital, people and ideas. In collaborating on this project, public and private enterprises in Newcastle not only help to achieve a better future through knowledge of the regional past, but contribute to new understandings of how regions can continue to forge direct transnational connections unmediated by interests based in metropolitan centres.
Waiting for Equality: Telling LGBT+ Stories about Marriage Equality in Newcastle and the Hunter, 2004-2019 2019 - 2020
A multi-disciplinary team of University of Newcastle researchers has received $10,000 Copley Bequest grant funding for a project that will capture and share locals’ lived experiences of the marriage equality debate and postal survey.
Led by historian Dr James Bennett of the School of Humanities and Social Science, the project team comprises Classics and gender, Professor Marguerite Johnson, lecturer in Law Dr Kcasey McLoughlin, and Social Work lecturer Dr David Betts.
Dr Bennett said current histories of LGBT+ people in Australia focus on Melbourne and Sydney but this project would be the first to focus on a regional LGBT+ community specifically in relation to the topic of marriage equality.
“The federal electorate of Newcastle produced the largest percentage vote (75%) for marriage equality in the 2017 postal ballot outside the capital cities,” he said.
“The major aim of the project is to help to tell a story yet to be told at an international, national and local level. The stories will be interpreted through a public exhibition to be held at Watt Space Gallery. The project will uncover many stories about this significant social and policy issue in the Newcastle and Hunter region, including: a detailed analysis of the postal survey vote; impacts on LGBT+ mental health; lobbying to bring about change, and the panoply of responses from both LGBT+ individuals and social groups.”
Dr Bennett said the project would make a timely and important social and cultural contribution by collaborating with industry and community partners to create a new and permanent resource that tells a previously unknown story about LGBT+ equality rights.
“The recent shifts in power dynamics pertaining to sexualities, the body, medicalisation, and the law – represented most profoundly by the marriage equality debate – has created a significant new social and policy context with implications for family law, religious freedom and gay ‘conversion therapy’ practices,” he said,
“The LGBT+ community is directly affected by these shifts but in ways that have not yet been fully explored. Given the vulnerability of the LGBT+ community and its critical absence from traditional histories of the region, this project will be the first to document the history of the LGBT+ movement in the Newcastle and Hunter region during the critical decade leading to marriage equality.”
The interdisciplinary project will connect researchers in History, Social Work and Law to align with the University of Newcastle’s Strategic Plan by supporting two of the University’s Global Impact Clusters: Stronger Cities, Communities and Regions, and Better Health, Healthcare and Treatment.
The project is generously supported by a bequest from the late Mrs Janet Copley.
The Janet Copley Bequest funds undergraduate and doctoral scholarships and provides seed funding for early- and mid-career researchers across the Humanities and Social Science disciplines.
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Research Collaborations
The map is a representation of a researchers co-authorship with collaborators across the globe. The map displays the number of publications against a country, where there is at least one co-author based in that country. Data is sourced from the University of Newcastle research publication management system (NURO) and may not fully represent the authors complete body of work.
Country | Count of Publications | |
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Australia | 23 | |
New Zealand | 2 | |
United Kingdom | 1 |
News
Copley Bequest funds project that tells marriage equality stories of Newcastle and the Hunter
May 17, 2019
New book reveals a fresh Australian perspective on the First World War
July 10, 2017
Radical Newcastle launched at Newcastle Writers Festival
March 24, 2015
Unearthing Newcastle's radical past
October 24, 2014
Dr James Bennett
Position
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
History
Contact Details
j.bennett@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4348 4057 (Callaghan) |
Office
Room | CT-225 (Callaghan) |
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Building | CT (Callaghan) |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |